Major victory for Google in Oracle vs Google

Today, the verdict has shifted to be in favour of Google which is great news for the entire mobile Java ecosystem including Android. The statement from the jury saying that Google had violated Oracle’s copyrights, was based on the assumption that APIs are copyrightable, and that’s down to the judge to decide. Read on, for more about this as the case unfolds.

However, if the judge decides that APIs are copyrightable, this literally will cause a massive issue for a lot of the software world, even to the point were Javascript could no longer be used (possibly why Google are developing alternatives as a backup plan), by Microsoft wanting to buy the rights from Netscape. This means the open-source world would have a major headache, which could be resolved with hard work but it’s a pain to begin with.

However, some interesting points were brought up,

The jury found Oracle failed to infringe on the documentation for the Java APIs

The jury found that Google proved the way Oracle/Sun presented Java, it was okay to use it without licensing and relied on this

Also, Google are pleased with this and so are we, as otherwise it would cause major implications for the entire industry around Android and other Java based products as we know it (maybe even affecting open-source projects like Jenkins, in use by the CyanogenMod team for nighlities).

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